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Soften
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To render less hard; - said of matter.
(2):
(v. t.) To make soft or more soft.
(3):
(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
(4):
(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
(5):
(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
(6):
(v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
(7):
(v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
(8):
(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
(9):
(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
(10):
(v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Soften'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/soften.html. 1828.
